i have a set of high gain AC128s lying around that i got from banzai but they're not NOS - how much does this shop charge for awesome trannies?

Banzai sells NOS transistors as far as I know, I could be wrong though. Anyways, I think I paid about €4ish. They're not that expensive. Sometimes they have NOS tubes as well, still need to get me a few of those

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Originally Posted by rhcp_freak

Hmmm, dyou guys think I could fit a small circuit, 5 knobs, an LED, input, output and a DC jack, a 3pdt switch and possibly a battery snap in a B enclosure?

Well, you can sure as hell forget about putting a battery in then and you'll probably won't get 5 knobs crammed in there either. I'd say 3-4 max, although it might just fit when you get 12mm and put the narrowest knobs you can find on them.
When you have the parts already lying around you could always make a mock up enclosure out of cardboard to see if you can puzzle it all in somehow

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A little tip for you: in The Hague there's a shop called Radio Twenthe on the Stille Veerkade were you can get NOS parts I bought a few AC127s there, those are NPN versions (positive ground, yay!) of the AC128 and they sound great in my Fuzz Face.

Hmmm, I've decided to go with PNP trannies and use a battery snap. When I start selling these things, I'll add DC jacks for £2 extra, but it's gonna have to be used with a separate adapter. PNP sounds better tonewise than NPN, IMO, and I guess you gotta make sacrifices for tone, even though it's not really much of a sacrifice.

No, I just bought a bunch and measured them at home. I have this really old huge analog multimeter (and a nice Fluke as well by the way) that can measure transistor gain directly. Here is a description of a simple rig with which you can measure transistor gain with a regular multimeter. It's quite an interesting read on fuzz faces in general as well.

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Coo'. I think I'll be going with the high gain PNP germies on banzai, mainly because I wanna build a fuzz with octave and overtones. The bias knob is handy with that too, cos then I can dial it lower for less octave and gain.